Patents by Inventor Dudley C. Smith

Dudley C. Smith has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4185511
    Abstract: A torque-transmitting, torque-sensing system has a first rotatable shaft which can be shifted radially in two orthogonally-displaced directions to be precisely concentric with a second rotatable shaft, has a first coupling element which is rotatable with but which is movable axially relative to one of those rotatable shafts, has a biasing means which urges the first coupling element for movement axially in one direction relative to the one rotatable shaft, has a second coupling element which is rotatable with the other rotatable shaft, and has a surface on one of those coupling elements which coacts with a complementary surface on the other of those coupling elements to enable those coupling elements to transmit torque from that rotatable shaft which is the driving shaft to that rotatable shaft which is the driven shaft while permitting the first coupling element to respond to a predetermined increase in rotation resistance of the driven shaft to move axially in the opposite direction relative to the one rota
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1980
    Assignee: John E. Mitchell Company
    Inventors: James R. Blackburn, Dudley C. Smith
  • Patent number: 4093055
    Abstract: A torque-transmitting, torque-sensing system has a first rotatable shaft which can be shifted radially in two orthogonally-displaced directions to be precisely concentric with a second rotatable shaft, has a first coupling element which is rotatable with but which is movable axially relative to one of those rotatable shafts, has a biasing means which urges the first coupling element for movement axially in one direction relative to the one rotatable shaft, has a second coupling element which is rotatable with the other rotatable shaft, and has a surface on one of those coupling elements which coacts with a complementary surface on the other of those coupling elements to enable those coupling elements to transmit torque from that rotatable shaft which is the driving shaft to that rotatable shaft which is the driven shaft while permitting the first coupling element to respond to a predetermined increase in rotation resistance of the driven shaft to move axially in the opposite direction relative to the one rota
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1978
    Assignee: John E. Mitchell Company
    Inventors: James R. Blackburn, Dudley C. Smith
  • Patent number: 4082142
    Abstract: A housing, for the expansion unit of a cooling system, has a top wall, a bottom wall and end walls; and those walls define a space which accommodates that expansion unit. That housing has a front opening which is filled by an air-distributing transition member; and it has a rear opening that is substantially closed by an air-guiding member. That air-guiding member can support a motor and a pair of multi-vane blowers, or it can be an angular transition for a single blower. That air-guiding member is shorter than the rear opening to provide a short space which can accommodate the supply and return headers of the expansion unit. That air-guiding member can be set in either of two predetermined positions relative to that rear opening to permit the supply and return headers to be located at either end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: John E. Mitchell Company
    Inventors: James R. Blackburn, Dudley C. Smith, Theo B. Smith, Jr., Jerry N. Morgan